The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

An art book is a museum without walls.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.